Continental woman sentenced for having sex with Lima inmate

LIMA — A Continental woman who engaged in consensual sex with an inmate at the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution last year was sentenced Monday to four years on probation.

Katie Bland, 35, pleaded guilty in May to an amended charge of gross sexual imposition, a fourth-degree felony, after initially being indicted by an Allen County grand jury on a third-degree felony count of sexual battery.

At that time, Bland admitted she engaged in sexual relations at the Lima prison with a male over which she had disciplinary authority